It is Remembrance day on Sunday, and it has been Veterans Week all week, hope you have your Poppy, and that you will observe Remembrance day. Thank a Veteran if you can, they deserve our thanks. I wanted to be a Fighter Pilot, but unfortunately the Big part of the Big Cajun Man, kind of got in the way. I had a very nice Armed Forces recruiter point out this problem before I signed up, so I thank him for that as well.

Surprisingly there has not been a mass immigration of folks who said, “If Obama wins I am moving to Canada”, yet and the world continues to spin as well. The drama of the U.S. election is a little overdone, but it is always an interesting story. Kudos to Donald Trump for having the most over the top reaction, look on-line for some of his tweets, he seems to be calling for revolution, and commented how Romney had more of the popular vote? Don’t think so, but as long as Trump stays in the U.S. we are good with it.

An interesting story was the proposition in Michigan to stop Canada from building a new bridge from Windsor to Detroit, which was supposed to cost Michigan nothing. Evidently Michigan thought it was some kind of Trojan Horse trickery from Canada, so they tried to stop its construction, with an odd proposition (backed by the owner of the existing bridge, who makes $80M a year from the existing bridge, what in interesting coincidence). Evidently the bridge construction will now go ahead? We shall see.

The new $20 Bill (pictures from the Bank of Canada below) is now on the streets here in Canada, so counterfeiters beware! It is interesting that maybe with the advent of electronic payment and such, maybe counterfeiters will give up trying to forge money, and just move over to identity theft? What does an out of work forger do these days?

This is also Financial Literacy Month #FLM2012, it kind of got lost in the hubbub and excitement of the American elections, but you should be trying to sharpen your Financial Smarts this month.

Weekly Recap

I guess I should prepare for the mass immigration coming from the U.S., I’ll put out the Welcome Mitt, but remember leave your Hand Guns and cheaper tax rates at the border:

And thanks to those who added me on Twitter I am now over 1260 folks who follow me, holy liftin! If you join my “Twitter Posse“, you might notice I am also re-Tweeting some posts from the French Media as well (hell, if I am learning the language, shouldn’t we all?).

Check out my Facebook page and find us on Google+ as well (but no I didn’t buy Facebook stock). The page includes many different posts, not just my own (kind of like this Friday post, but all week-long), and I have changed it a little bit too (note the new background).

Links for the Week

It was a dark and stormy week this week, that is for sure, but hopefully our favorite authors can be a shining beacon of light for all of us:

Top Stories of the Week of November 9th 2012
Financial Literacy Month/Veteran’s Week

Other Bookkeeping

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Thanks for the link, but the Control Your Cash post was actually about how having a hospital profit off your child’s birth is a good thing, when contrasted with going on the cheap and hiring a midwife.

BCM:
Thx for link. Speaking of Remembrance Day, as an observer of human nature etc. have u ever written why the hell can’t someone make a poppy that does not stick you ten times and fall off fourteen times. Just have a closure pin.